Right, because a game bundle that pulls in $480,000 total proves there is a market for lots of games? You're kidding me right? That's less than the cost to develop even one game. For comparison, WoW pulls in $1 billion per year
Alexion Pharmaceutical's Soliris, at $409,500 a year, is the world's single most expensive drug. This monoclonal antibody drug treats a rare disorder in which the immune system destroys red blood cells at night. The disorder, paroxysymal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), hits 8,000 Americans.
Elaprase ($375,000 per year) treats an ultra-rare metabolic disorder called Hunter's syndrome. Just 500 Americans suffer from the disease, which causes infections, breathing problems and brain damage.
Naglazyme from BioMarin Pharmaceuticals treats another rare metabolic disorder and costs $365,000 a year, according to investment bank Robert W. Baird. Viropharma predicts that sales of its Cinryze, a treatment to prevent a dangerous swelling of the face, will increase from $95 million last year to $350 million several years from now. The drug costs an estimated $350,000 a year.
There are still plenty of online sites that don't require the CVV at all... And if you can use a card-magnetizing tool, then you could use the card at any physical location. Can't remember the last time a cashier looked at my card or asked for the CVV.
Disney has 40 billion in revenue. They own Pixar, ABC, ESPN, Marvel comics, theme parks, and a long list of other companies. They have 70 billion in assets, and made 5 billion last year (1/2 what google made).
Small amount of resources for the GUI?! Are you kidding? Windows 7 requires 1-2 GB of RAM. Compare that to FreeBSD, which requires 24 MB of RAM.
That is a lot of wasted resources on a server. And a huge difference in the number of requests it can handle.
Not to mention that you need KVM-over-IP for the Windows server and a video card (few hundred dollars extra per server).. whereas Linux just needs SSH.
No one is going to run Windows on a server unless they NEED Windows. There's a reason Windows has a fraction of the marketshare Linux does on servers. It's nice to see MS finally fix this.
For all of the few days it takes walmart to cut you out of the loop. Walmart will buy a few copies, see it's selling well, and then go produce copies themselves. It would never be profitable, and the author would never become well known, because long before that (if it sells well), everyone will start making the copies themselves.
I write a popular book. Walmart buys a few copies and sells them in their stores. They see it is selling great. They print up a bunch of copies, and within a week, they are selling their own copies instead of mine. They look, feel, and are exactly the same. Consumers can't tell the difference, and don't care.
There. It wasn't overnight. It took a week. Which is about how long you can have a printer do a quick turn around on a medium-size print job.
They wouldn't be better off selling blank paper unless their content is worse than reading blank pages.
In what way? If I write something on paper, and I have to sell it for the same price as blank paper, why am I writing on the paper? Why would I spend a year+ to write a book, when I can take a stack of blank paper right now and sell it. Why would anyone pay a premium for my writing when it's available for free the next day (when there's no copyright)? Just saying they would be better off doesn't make it so.
So if I write a really great book and provide it to people for $10. And WalMart takes my book, copies it perfectly and places it on their shelves for $2 in front of millions of people. You say, those people will see that perfect copy, and THEN go find out who wrote it, track down the author, find out how to purchase it, and then actually purchase the book for 5x the price? Wow.. what a world you live in.
So purchase a million copies of a book at $1.50, and sell them for $5? That's a very similar markup to producing a retail product. What you're basically saying is that the words in the book are worthless, and the author would be better off selling books of blank paper.
Any accountant of any form worth their salt is doing it because they geinuinely like the artform, and would do so pay or no pay. Any software developer of any form worth their salt is doing it because they geinuinely like the artform, and would do so pay or no pay. Any website designer of any form worth their salt is doing it because they geinuinely like the artform, and would do so pay or no pay. Any scientist of any form worth their salt is doing it because they geinuinely like the artform, and would do so pay or no pay.
I'll sign up with your "let's make all copywritten works free" when you agree to do your own job for free too.
Only because copyright is enforced. Pirated copies can't be sold at Amazon, Best Buy, etc. Selling a pirated copy is inviting a lawsuit and/or FBI raid.
And the amount of money is irrelevant. If they create something that great, then they deserve the rewards from it for a limited period of time.
Let's not pretend that copyright doesn't have a good purpose. If I create a new product (w/o a patent), it can take time for other people to copy it. They have to reverse engineer it, and figure out how everything works. And their copy might not be as good as my version.
But with books, music, software... It can be copied the day it's released. And every copy is an exact perfect duplicate. My copy is just as good as another persons copy.
And that difference, means it would be nearly impossible to monetize anything except physical products. So copyrights are needed and are important.
BUT that doesn't mean it should be protected for a 100+ years. Is the phone from 1876 as important today as it was then? Is last decades music listened to as much as music that was released last week? Are books from 100 years ago as popular as today's bestsellers? Copyrighted material becomes worth less as time passes.
After 10 years or so, very few copyrighted works are worth more than a fraction of what they were originally.
So set a 10 year copyright. I would even go for 15 years.. but that's starting to become excessive.
What about a Gerneral's laptop he uses to answer (work) emails? Maybe he doesn't read sensitive reports on the laptop, but would it be ok for a foreign power to read those emails? Absolute not.
You can't expect the Indian government to run software from an American company without checking. An American company that has contracts with the US government BTW.
If they followed your advice, everything except the most highly classified data would be open to a foreign government to sift through.
Don't you think the Indian military needs anti-virus software? Don't you think they would need to examine the source code before running software from an American company on potentially sensitive systems? And don't you think Symantec would give it to them to secure the contract?
What?!! Are you saying they weren't serious when they offered it to Facebook? That's ridiculous. They have perfect synergy: Palm makes phones and Facebook has a mobile app and uses mobile phones. See? They fit together perfectly.
congrats on the weight loss. About 6-7 years ago I cut nearly all of the junk food, lost 45 lbs. It's surprisingly difficult to gain weight without junk. 1 pint of ice cream == 10 apples or 30 tomatoes or 25 cucumbers or 1-1.5 loaves of bread or ~2.5 steaks (8oz).
Was he just doing PR though? It seems like he was doing PR + customer service. I mean, since when is it's the PR persons job to give you updates on the status of your order? No PR a company can deal with. No customer service.. maybe a couple of days before their customers get angry.
He said he hasn't lost any OTHER clients. But they're asking him about it. I guarantee, they just wanted to hear his response. They're obviously concerned with his behavior or they wouldn't even ask about it. They might pretend it was ok to his face, but the moment the phone hangs up, they're searching for a new company to do business with.
Give it a couple of weeks.. then see how many clients he has left.
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If you're largest more successful example is two guys working out of an apartment, then you're example is proof there is no market.
Right, because a game bundle that pulls in $480,000 total proves there is a market for lots of games? You're kidding me right? That's less than the cost to develop even one game. For comparison, WoW pulls in $1 billion per year
http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/19/expensive-drugs-cost-business-healthcare-rare-diseases.html
Alexion Pharmaceutical's Soliris, at $409,500 a year, is the world's single most expensive drug. This monoclonal antibody drug treats a rare disorder in which the immune system destroys red blood cells at night. The disorder, paroxysymal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), hits 8,000 Americans.
Elaprase ($375,000 per year) treats an ultra-rare metabolic disorder called Hunter's syndrome. Just 500 Americans suffer from the disease, which causes infections, breathing problems and brain damage.
Naglazyme from BioMarin Pharmaceuticals treats another rare metabolic disorder and costs $365,000 a year, according to investment bank Robert W. Baird. Viropharma predicts that sales of its Cinryze, a treatment to prevent a dangerous swelling of the face, will increase from $95 million last year to $350 million several years from now. The drug costs an estimated $350,000 a year.
There are still plenty of online sites that don't require the CVV at all... And if you can use a card-magnetizing tool, then you could use the card at any physical location. Can't remember the last time a cashier looked at my card or asked for the CVV.
Disney has 40 billion in revenue. They own Pixar, ABC, ESPN, Marvel comics, theme parks, and a long list of other companies. They have 70 billion in assets, and made 5 billion last year (1/2 what google made).
If you compare weather widgets before and after the iphone, you can clearly see that everyone is copying Apple's design.
Look at how similar Samsung's is to Apple's today, and compare that to the common design before the iPhone.
Small amount of resources for the GUI?! Are you kidding? Windows 7 requires 1-2 GB of RAM. Compare that to FreeBSD, which requires 24 MB of RAM.
That is a lot of wasted resources on a server. And a huge difference in the number of requests it can handle.
Not to mention that you need KVM-over-IP for the Windows server and a video card (few hundred dollars extra per server).. whereas Linux just needs SSH.
No one is going to run Windows on a server unless they NEED Windows. There's a reason Windows has a fraction of the marketshare Linux does on servers. It's nice to see MS finally fix this.
For all of the few days it takes walmart to cut you out of the loop. Walmart will buy a few copies, see it's selling well, and then go produce copies themselves. It would never be profitable, and the author would never become well known, because long before that (if it sells well), everyone will start making the copies themselves.
It's only the media with a high production cost
Yes.. like software. Who needs that anyway.
I write a popular book. Walmart buys a few copies and sells them in their stores. They see it is selling great. They print up a bunch of copies, and within a week, they are selling their own copies instead of mine. They look, feel, and are exactly the same. Consumers can't tell the difference, and don't care.
There. It wasn't overnight. It took a week. Which is about how long you can have a printer do a quick turn around on a medium-size print job.
They wouldn't be better off selling blank paper unless their content is worse than reading blank pages.
In what way? If I write something on paper, and I have to sell it for the same price as blank paper, why am I writing on the paper? Why would I spend a year+ to write a book, when I can take a stack of blank paper right now and sell it. Why would anyone pay a premium for my writing when it's available for free the next day (when there's no copyright)? Just saying they would be better off doesn't make it so.
So if I write a really great book and provide it to people for $10. And WalMart takes my book, copies it perfectly and places it on their shelves for $2 in front of millions of people. You say, those people will see that perfect copy, and THEN go find out who wrote it, track down the author, find out how to purchase it, and then actually purchase the book for 5x the price? Wow.. what a world you live in.
So purchase a million copies of a book at $1.50, and sell them for $5? That's a very similar markup to producing a retail product. What you're basically saying is that the words in the book are worthless, and the author would be better off selling books of blank paper.
Any accountant of any form worth their salt is doing it because they geinuinely like the artform, and would do so pay or no pay.
Any software developer of any form worth their salt is doing it because they geinuinely like the artform, and would do so pay or no pay.
Any website designer of any form worth their salt is doing it because they geinuinely like the artform, and would do so pay or no pay.
Any scientist of any form worth their salt is doing it because they geinuinely like the artform, and would do so pay or no pay.
I'll sign up with your "let's make all copywritten works free" when you agree to do your own job for free too.
Only because copyright is enforced. Pirated copies can't be sold at Amazon, Best Buy, etc. Selling a pirated copy is inviting a lawsuit and/or FBI raid.
And the amount of money is irrelevant. If they create something that great, then they deserve the rewards from it for a limited period of time.
Let's not pretend that copyright doesn't have a good purpose. If I create a new product (w/o a patent), it can take time for other people to copy it. They have to reverse engineer it, and figure out how everything works. And their copy might not be as good as my version.
But with books, music, software... It can be copied the day it's released. And every copy is an exact perfect duplicate. My copy is just as good as another persons copy.
And that difference, means it would be nearly impossible to monetize anything except physical products. So copyrights are needed and are important.
BUT that doesn't mean it should be protected for a 100+ years. Is the phone from 1876 as important today as it was then? Is last decades music listened to as much as music that was released last week? Are books from 100 years ago as popular as today's bestsellers? Copyrighted material becomes worth less as time passes.
After 10 years or so, very few copyrighted works are worth more than a fraction of what they were originally.
So set a 10 year copyright. I would even go for 15 years.. but that's starting to become excessive.
There's a wide range of sensitive data.
What about a Gerneral's laptop he uses to answer (work) emails? Maybe he doesn't read sensitive reports on the laptop, but would it be ok for a foreign power to read those emails? Absolute not.
You can't expect the Indian government to run software from an American company without checking. An American company that has contracts with the US government BTW.
If they followed your advice, everything except the most highly classified data would be open to a foreign government to sift through.
Wow... so many assumptions in one post.
Don't you think the Indian military needs anti-virus software? Don't you think they would need to examine the source code before running software from an American company on potentially sensitive systems? And don't you think Symantec would give it to them to secure the contract?
It's $900?! Geez.. Why don't I just buy new keyboards every 3 months instead
What?!! Are you saying they weren't serious when they offered it to Facebook? That's ridiculous. They have perfect synergy: Palm makes phones and Facebook has a mobile app and uses mobile phones. See? They fit together perfectly.
congrats on the weight loss. About 6-7 years ago I cut nearly all of the junk food, lost 45 lbs. It's surprisingly difficult to gain weight without junk. 1 pint of ice cream == 10 apples or 30 tomatoes or 25 cucumbers or 1-1.5 loaves of bread or ~2.5 steaks (8oz).
thanks... guess i'll have to watch the longer one.
Was he just doing PR though? It seems like he was doing PR + customer service. I mean, since when is it's the PR persons job to give you updates on the status of your order? No PR a company can deal with. No customer service.. maybe a couple of days before their customers get angry.
He said he hasn't lost any OTHER clients. But they're asking him about it. I guarantee, they just wanted to hear his response. They're obviously concerned with his behavior or they wouldn't even ask about it. They might pretend it was ok to his face, but the moment the phone hangs up, they're searching for a new company to do business with.
Give it a couple of weeks.. then see how many clients he has left.
Not to mention it's only been a couple of days. They need a little time to secure a contract with another company before they tell him to fck off.